Sentences with phrase «canal levee»

There is a safe exit to a secure area of the roof — a feature that needs no explanation for longtime Lower Ninth Ward residents like Green, who lost both his mother and his three - year - old granddaughter in 20 - foot - high floodwaters after the Industrial Canal levee broke in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.

And the Make It Right homes — the first of which was built on the very spot where the Industrial Canal levee breached on Aug. 29, 2005 — are designed to withstand the next hurricane.

Less ubiquitous, however, were images of the secondary setback suffered by New Orleans homeowners: an onslaught of aggressive mold left behind by the receding waters, an example of which can be seen in this photo taken less than a month after the storm hit, showing the scarred walls of Danielle Boyce Batten's home in Lakeview, where the 17th Street Canal levee was breached.

At 2:00 PM CDT (1900 UTC), New Orleans officials confirmed a breach of the 17th Street Canal levee.

Not exact matches

For Walt Disney World (now the Magic Kingdom ®), which opened in 1971, the company built dozens of canals and levees and drained an entire lake.

If you start digging a canal through the levee and into adjacent land to try and lower the lake, you're going to hit ice.

Kidder's research suggests the Chinese began building drainage / irrigation canals and bank / levee systems along the lower reaches of the Yellow River about 2,900 - 2,700 years ago.

During that time, the Army Corps of Engineers, to ensure water supply and prevent floods, built over 1000 miles of levees and canals that channel water from the area north of the Everglades to urban and agricultural areas.

The story of how that happened is a tale of levees, oil wells and canals leading to destruction on a scale almost too big to comprehend — and perhaps too late to rebuild.

If there were 10,000 miles of canals, there were 20,000 miles of levees.

Its plan calls for stopping the diversion of water by filling in more than 500 miles of canals and levees, creating new surface water reservoirs, and drilling more than 300 wells to store billions of gallons of fresh water in an underground aquifer.

Where the canals empty at Lake Pontchartrain, they've added massive new pump stations that send water to Lake Pontchartrain if it starts to get too high on the levees in the canals.

Scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that human - made canals limit the natural tidal inundation process in roughly 45 percent of the state's coastline, and disruptions from levees accounted for 15 percent.

Gustav only caused a few feet of surge, yet water levels in the Industrial Canal rose over eight feet, and the levees almost failed again.

These are only partly natural phenomena and they have been made worse by settlement decisions, canal development, loss of barrier wetlands, extraction of groundwater, oil, and natural gas, internal rainfall storage, and the design, construction, and failure of protective structures and inside levees rainfall storage.

The central unanticipated event during Katrina was the failures of levees along the major canals.

For example, during Hurricane Katrina the Industrial Canal of New Orleans torpedoing the storm surge into the levees, and later the levees actually keeping water inside the city and preventing it from draining.

The erosion is caused largely by decades of building canals, levees and dams to control flooding, ease navigation and facilitate oil and gas exploration.

Levees separating Lake Pontchartrain and several canals from New Orleans were breached by the surge from the Category 3 hurricane, subsequently flooding 80 percent of the city and many neighboring parishes for weeks.